Pre-Primary Curriculum

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The Montessori Pre-Primary classroom at Kingswood World consists of different areas, each containing shelves of works. The shelves are organized with the simplest works at the beginning and the most advanced works at the end. This organization helps set each child up for success.

Montessori materials are self-correcting, and this encourages children to feel a sense of accomplishment from the very beginning of their educational journey.

Kingswood classrooms have specific concepts/goals for children to learn and achieve.

The Sensorial Area  This area “refines the senses” by allowing children to explore works using their sense of touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. This area also supports the development of key concepts such as shape recognition, discrimination of size (big/little), and color recognition.

Practical Area It contains “everyday living” works such as sorting, pouring ,whisking , preparing a snack, sawing at the workbench and sewing. These works support the young child’s development of concentration, order, coordination, and independence while also refining their fine motor skills.

Art Area  It exposes children to various famous artists in addition to learning skills such as cutting, drawing, painting, sculpting, and collage. There are many opportunities in the Kingswood classroom for creative artistic expression.

The Social Science Area  supports their understanding of the world around them. Young children are fascinated about the world and love learning about different cultures, maps , flags, holidays, traditions, foods, dresses, flora & fauna etc. Through well planned hands-on, interactive experiences, children are allowed the opportunity to explore the world around them at their own pace.

The Language area Listening Station , SpeakOpens support the development of pre-reading skills such as patterning, sequencing, and classifying as well as sound recognition and awareness. Children also learn the phonetic sound each letter makes and composes (writes) words with the Moveable Alphabet.

Handwriting & Reading skills at Kingswood are supported throughout the entire classroom via hand strengthening works, tracing at the light box, writing letters in the cornmeal tray, and journal writing.

The Math area of the Montessori classroom consists of works that support counting quantity , number recognition , graphing, fractions, money, and time, in addition to learning all four mathematical operations (addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division) in concrete, hands-on ways.

Music & Dance Area engages the young brains and help them explore and control body movements. Improves self confidence and develops social skills. 

Natural Playground features a large sandbox, musical instruments, a slide built into the hill, sensory boxes, trees, and many other opportunities for imaginary, free play.

During unfavourable weather conditions the children enjoy a meeting time filled with story telling, musical instruments, songs, movement, dancing, and games.

ValueEd inculcates the value of honesty, compassion, responsibility, helpfulness, respect, self-control, independence, self-confidence, love, be cheerful, courtesy, creativity, perseverance, consistency and courage as an integral part of Kingswood curriculum.

Health Club includes Yoga , Taekwondo , Splash pool, Drills etc for a harmonious physical and mental growth.